Casey and I are enjoying our night after long days of work. Casey is watching the Will Smith Hancock movie from Red Box. Every Monday we receive text messages with the promo code to rent a free movie. We think Red Box is the greatest invention ever. (Our world is pretty simple right now so it's the small things that entertain us.) I am currently blogging (obviously) and drinking tea.
We just returned from Macy's to make sure our credit cards that we were basically lied into getting were cancelled. (It's a long story. We were trying to use our wedding gift cards from Macy's and we were told we could get 20% of our purchases for opening the cards and we could pay with our gift cards. Drama. Casey loves telling the story. It involves an old lady telling us that she isn't a cougar.) The whole thing just leaves this unsettling reality in my mind that we are bombarded everywhere with "buy this...buy that"..." Get this credit card and you will save all this money." Such lies that people are so easily swayed by.
Casey and I have been quite succesful in dealing with our finances responsibly. We might fail miserably in other areas but we are both proud for how we have handled what God has provided for us and how we have learned to communicate about money as a married couple. We have had a few unexpected things in the first few months of marriage and we (THANKFULLY) have navigated through them well. It hasn't been easy by any means but we have learned a lot about each other.
We both enjoy listening to Dave Ramsey. He has radio and TV shows and he's also an author. It's incredible to read and listen to the stories of people he has helped pay off thousands and thousnds of dollars of debt in small amounts of time. We encourage everyone to check him out. His main slogan is "Live like no one else, so you can live like no one else."
I am thankful for a husband who desires to be responsible for what God has given us. I am thankful he is wise and that he desires to work together as a team to deal with money.
Speaking of money, Christmas is soon. And while our culture tells us to spend lots of money on stuff, we can take a stand and do something greater. Advent Conspiracy is a movement to fight against consumerism. (Most people who read our blog probably know all about it.) It's a great way to spread God's love.
2 comments:
Sounds like I need to hear the story about the credit card... If Casey loves to tell it, then it means two things.
1) It's a good story
2) He'll put his all into telling it... making it a great story.
Precisely.
You know him SO well.
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